Word: gay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...afternoon at an hour leaving plenty of time after the match to reach home after dark. It has always been a custom for students to invite ladies to these games, and we never noticed that many of them were of the chaperone class. The young ladies with their gay colors are a considerable attraction at all the great matches, and the students would be loath to see the day when they would be no longer able to bring them. As to chaperones, we can only repeat our former assertion that they are decidedly the exception, and not the rule...
Long before two o'clock the doors of the gymnasium were besieged by an eager crowd clamoring for admittance, and at two all the benches were nearly filled with spectators. The unusually fine weather materially influenced the attendance, materially influenced the attendance, and the gay-hued dresses of the many ladies present lent color and variety to the dense rows of lookers on. A number of graduates were present who occupied the forms ranged along on either side of the contesting ring. The gallery and ends of the hall were reserved as usual for the ladies and their escorts...
...Henry L. Daniells, one of the victims of the Gay Head disaster, was not a student at the Institute of Technology as reported, but was attending the Normal Art School...
...first batch of married fellows. How he had got into this thoroughly wrong paradise was a mystery which he made no attempt to explain. "A nice place this, eh?" he said to me; "nice gardens; remind me of Magdalen a good deal. It seems, however, to be decidedly rather gay just now, don't you think so? Commemoration week, perhaps, a great many young ladies up, certainly; a good deal of cup drunk in the gardens, too, I always did prefer to go down in Commemoration week myself; never was a dancing man. There is a great deal of dancing...
...wonder how anybody could have been found to accept the office of watchman in those times, not so very remote, when beating the watch was part of a gay young gentleman's evening's amusement. Canning, writing a dutiful, though stilted, letter to his uncle from Oxford, memtioned quite casually that, returning from a political debate at the coffee-house, he and six friends had fallen in with two watchmen who, as the result of this encounter, turpe solum tetigere mento. Even the decorous Charles Greville tells us how, after dinning at White's, he had a spar with some...